| | Even though it may be a little self-referential,coming from Forbes ,it seems to be specally true of these times:If fiction can be regarded as a culture’s subconscious,then it’s clear that we are a nation obsessed with the very rich. And then we have all our cultural icons based on the affluent [...] Bad weather in Texas Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d390′).each( function(e){e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); Reading Dorothea’s description of her attitude towards personal finances made me remember my own sad and depleted coffers. I am an Economist,with capital E,but somehow I missed the part where it said”do not indulge”. Every time I go close to a bookstore,boom,the latest best seller,or a management book,or a [...] Dreamgirl is traveling this summer to Nepal,and me,computer freak that I am (her words),promptly offered my services in one of those zany ideas;weblog the whole thing,document it,post your pictures here,make everybody know about what you and all your classmates will be doing. She would be reaching a far more numerous community,making her name and stating her case for the huge amount of things she is going to encounter there.
Of course,I do not sell well,or she was tired,or this being Valentine Day she had other things on her mind.
Still have about a month to convince her.
Still,how difficult is it to make people embrace technology – even when it is not so tech? It is just a journal with software,if you do not take into account the internet. And,even so,we are still talking about viral marketing,because there is only a small probability that her pictures are going to appear in USA Today – although they might,she is that good – so there is no need to be shy or anything. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d335′).each( function(e){e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); Yay! Woot! ¡Viva!
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I have been wondering the same lately,and unlike Elaine,I can not sleep. I have been having nightmares in which I kill people,with my government issued 9 mm berettas parabellum.
I don;t know what is it that is more painful,the fact that the USA is slowly sliding into a war state,or that we are all inertly sitting in front of our tv,listening to a brilliant speech fabricated to appease the public and convince the weakly minded.
Of course Mr. Bush – he is unworthy of being the president – has decided to invade Iraq and proceed with his folly. Of course Mr. Bush and his supporters are trying to convince us,to dissipate the blame and shift the responsibility.
He has a lot invested into this war,and I am not only talking about his personal wealth. His personal reputation rides in this abstruse enemy that he has brought upon to himself to vanquish. Never mind that other nations are as well guilty of what he finds execrable in Iraq. Don’t pay attention to the human rights situation in China,or the nuclear weaponry already developed by North Korea. Do not even look at the Russian treatment of Chechen rebels,gassed and killed i the center of Moscow. The important issue here is a war into which Mr. Bush is going to sink the future of Americans for generations to come. He won’t feel that pain,at any rate,since he already has his tax exemptions and his lucrative contracts.
I am opposed to this war,and although the nagging feeling that perhaps Hussein is not the perfect tyrant sometimes bothers me,it is even more annoying the contented smirk that accompanies each of the lies that Mr. Bush utters each time he approaches the press.
And then supporters of the war draw parallels between this developments and the Second World War,and it seems awful:A clever politician,that with clever propaganda twisted the minds of its people,and with the use of secret police destroyed his opposition. An absolute ruler that justified his actions on his noble intentions. A country that ceded its soul and its values for the taste of revenge. An entire population suffering as scapegoats,millions of people,facing death at the hands of an incredible superior war machine.
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